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Taxation
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2010.01.01.
Fees, charges and duties

Procedural duties applied by the tax authority

Proceedings opened under reasons of equity and proceedings for better payment terms (deferral, instalments)

HUF 2,200

Proceedings for Tax Authority Certificates (to the effect that no tax liability is outstanding)

HUF 2,000

If one application is submitted for more than one certificate, HUF 2,000 is charged for the first copy and HUF 600 for each additional copy with identical data content

Proceedings for Combined Tax Authority Certificates (to the effect that no tax liability is outstanding)

Twice the duty on the issuance of Tax Authority Certificates

Proceedings for the issuance of official income and residence certificates

Exempt from duties

Copies, extracts

Hungarian language copy

HUF 100/page

Foreign language copy

HUF 300/page

Uncertified photocopy

HUF 100/page

Appeals against decisions

HUF 400 on each commenced HUF 10,000 of the amount contested, minimum HUF 5,000 and maximum HUF 500,000

Petitions for supervisory action

HUF 400 on each commenced HUF 10,000 of the amount contested, minimum HUF 5,000 and maximum HUF 500,000

Appeals against rulings

HUF 3,000 (If a ruling can be contested only in conjunction with an appeal against the decision adopted in conclusion of the proceedings, the duty payable equals to the duty charged on the appeal filed against the decision.)

Demurrer of execution

HUF 5,000

Appeal lodged against a ruling adopted in connection with an objection to liquidation

HUF 10,000

 

 

Tax authority service charges

First application for tax identity card

Free of charge

Issuance of new tax identity cards due to loss, destruction or damage

HUF 2,200

First issuance of START, START PLUSZ, START EXTRA cards

Free of charge

Issuance of new START, START PLUSZ, START EXTRA cards due to changes in data or erroneous data entry

Free of charge

Issuance of new START, START PLUSZ, START EXTRA cards due to loss, destruction or damage

HUF 2,200

Provision of data on the market prices of real property

Provision of general data

per settlements, per districts in the capital city

HUF 7,500 basic fee + HUF 25/item of real property

Provision of detailed data

per settlements, per districts in the capital city HUF 7,500 basic fee + HUF 110/per real property

Provision of specific data and retroactive provision of data

HUF 500,000 basic fee + HUF 110/per real property

Provision of general annual national data

HUF 10,000,000

Provision of detailed annual national data

HUF 15,000,000

Provision of data to court experts

HUF 8,000

 

 

Duties on acquisition of property:

Obligation to pay inheritance duty and duty on gift arises through inheritance and gifting, respectively as stipulated in Act XCIII of 1990 on Duties. 

Obligation to pay inheritance duty pertains to

  • all inheritance (legacy) located in Hungary, with no exception;
  • movable estate inherited by a Hungarian citizen or a non-Hungarian citizen residing in Hungary or by a domestic-registered legal entity, where the estate is located abroad, as well as to rights of pecuniary value that are part of a foreign estate, if no inheritance duty or tax corresponding thereto is payable in the state in which such estate is situated.

Verification of the fact of payment of duty or tax abroad is the responsibility of the heir. The provisions on inheritance duty do not apply to real property situated abroad.

 

Obligation to pay duty on gift:

  • Provisions governing duties on gifts apply to real property situated in Hungary and rights representing pecuniary value pertaining thereto, unless otherwise provided for by an international agreement;
  • The provisions of the Act on Duties shall be applied to the acquisition, through a legal transaction, of moveable property or to rights of pecuniary value pertaining to movable property if the transfer of such movable property or the acquisition of such rights of pecuniary value has taken place in Hungary;
  • Waiving the outstanding claim through assignation, transfer of debt or any other similar way of acquisition of wealth, if the person acquiring the wealth is a resident private individual as per the Personal Income Tax Act, or is an organisation registered in Hungary. (If the value of the payment compensation for the acquisition of the property/real estate quid pro quo is less than 50% of the market value, a gift tax is to be paid after the difference between the 50% of the market value and the value of the compensation.)

 

Duties on transfer of property:

Based on the Act on Duties, acquisition of real property as well as certain movable property and rights of pecuniary value, for consideration or not subject to duty on inheritance or gifts in any other way, is subject to a duty on onerous transfer of property.

Provisions governing duties on onerous transfer of property apply to real property situated in Hungary, motor vehicle and trailer registered in Hungary, and rights representing pecuniary value pertaining thereto moreover to holdings in a company owning real property in Hungary unless otherwise provided for by an international agreement. The provisions of the Act on Duties shall be applied to the acquisition, through a legal transaction, of moveable property or rights of pecuniary value pertaining to movable property – except motor vehicle and trailer registered in Hungary and holdings in a company owning real property in Hungary –, if the transfer of such movable property or the acquisition of such rights of pecuniary value has taken place in Hungary.

The obligation to pay duties applies to the following rights of pecuniary value and movable property:

  • acquisition of rights of pecuniary value related to real property, and acquisition of property through the termination of such rights;
  • cession of the exercise of usufruct enjoyed in respect of real property;
  • acquisition of movable property at an auction conducted by an authority;
  • acquisition of ownership of, or the rights of pecuniary value pertaining to, motor vehicles and trailers;
  • acquisition of the ownership of, or the rights of pecuniary value pertaining to, building structures not qualifying as real property and located in public areas;
  • acquisition of the right to conduct independent medical practice;
  • acquisition of securities under contract of inheritance
  • acquisition of holdings (stocks, business shares, investor share certificates, converted investor shares) in a company with holdings in real estate properties located in Hungary.

Obligation to pay duty applies to real property, moveable property and rights of pecuniary value. For the purposes of the Act on Duties, these shall mean:

  • real property: land and all things inseparably attached to land;
  • movable property: payment instruments, securities, holdings in companies, and all other things not construed as real property;
  • right of pecuniary value: right of dominant tenement and usufruct, right of use – including the rights of use defined in the provisions concerning cooperative housing property –, right of asset management and the right of conducting independent medical practice, right of operation, and claims in connection with gratuitous rights.

 

 

Inheritance duty:

Group

General rate of duty

Duty on the acquisition of residential property

I. For the decedent’s children, spouse, parents, and grandchildren supported in the decedent’s household in the absence of a parent

(adopted, step-, and foster children are construed as the same as biological children; adoptive, step-, and foster parents are construed as the same as biological parents)

11% up to HUF 18 million

2.5% up to HUF 18 million

15% on any amount between HUF 18 million and HUF 35 million

6% on any amount between HUF 18 million and HUF 35 million

21% on any amount over HUF 35 million

11% on any amount over HUF 35 million

II. For those of the decedent’s grandchildren, grandparents, and siblings not included in Group I

15% up to HUF 18 million

6% up to HUF 18 million

21% on any amount between HUF 18 million and HUF 35 million

8% on any amount between HUF 18 million and HUF 35 million

30% on any amount over HUF 35 million

15% on any amount over HUF 35 million

III. For all other heirs

21% up to HUF 18 million

8% up to HUF 18 million

30% on any amount between HUF 18 million and HUF 35 million

12% on any amount between HUF 18 million and HUF 35 million

40% on any amount over HUF 35 million

21% on any amount over HUF 35 million

 

The inheritance of a motor vehicle or trailer

Twice the duty charged on the quid pro quo transfer of a motor vehicle or trailer

The conveyance of the right to conduct independent medical practice

10%

 

If the heir is the decedent’s child, spouse, parent or grandchild supported in the decedent’s household in the absence of a parent, HUF 20 million of the net value of the inherited share acquired by him/her is exempt from inheritance duty.

When this exemption is applied, it is primarily the duty base established on the housing property or the right of pecuniary value related to the housing unit (hereinafter: “housing unit”) acquired by the heir that must be reduced. If the net value of the housing unit is below HUF 20 million, the properties otherwise subject to a general inheritance duty are exempt from duty up to the amount that remains after the net value of the housing unit is deducted from HUF 20 million.

 

 

Duty on gifts:

Group

General rate of duty

Duty on the acquisition of residential property

I. For the donor’s children, spouse, parents, and grandchildren supported in the donor’s household in the absence of a parent

(adopted, step-, and foster children are construed as the same as biological children; adoptive, step-, and foster parents are construed as the same as biological parents)

11% up to HUF 18 million

5% up to HUF 18 million

18% on any amount between HUF 18 million and HUF 35 million

8% on any amount between HUF 18 million and HUF 35 million

21% on any amount over HUF 35 million

12% on any amount over HUF 35 million

II. For those of the donor’s grandchildren, grandparents, and siblings not included in Group I

15% up to HUF 18 million

8% up to HUF 18 million

21% on any amount between HUF 18 million and HUF 35 million

10% on any amount between HUF 18 million and HUF 35 million

30% on any amount over HUF 35 million

16% on any amount over HUF 35 million

III. For all other beneficiaries

21% up to HUF 18 million

10% up to HUF 18 million

30% on any amount between HUF 18 million and HUF 35 million

21% on any amount between HUF 18 million and HUF 35 million

40% on any amount over HUF 35 million

30% on any amount over HUF 35 million

 

The donation of a motor vehicle or trailer

Twice the duty charged on the quid pro quo transfer of a motor vehicle or trailer

 The donation of the right to conduct independent medical practice

10%

 

 

Duty on onerous transfer of property:

General rate of duty

4%

in case of real property 4% up to HUF 1 billion, 2% on the part of the market value above, but not more then HUF 200 million per real estate

Acquisition of the right to conduct independent medical practice

10%

Acquisition of residential property

2% up to HUF 4 million, 6% for the sum above HUF 4 million

In respect of the acquisition of partial ownership in a housing unit, 2% on the fraction of HUF 4 million in proportion to the ownership percentage acquired, 4% on the amount in excess thereof.

In the case of exchanging ownership of housing units, 2% on the difference of the full market value of the housing units exchanged up to HUF 4 million in difference, 4% on the sum above HUF 4 million

In the case of purchase or sale of residential property within 1 year, 2% on the difference between the full market value of the properties purchased or sold up to HUF 4 million in difference, 4% on the sum above HUF 4 million

Real property acquisition for commercial purposes

2%

Acquisition of real property by credit institutions

2%

Motor vehicles

general rate of duty

HUF 18/cm³

for passenger cars with a cubic capacity of over 1,890 cm³, and for motorcycles with a cubic capacity of over 500 cm³

HUF 24/cm³

for motor vehicles powered by electric engines

HUF 400/kW

for motor vehicles fitted with Wankel rotary combustion engines

HUF 36/cm³

Trailers

with a permissible maximum gross weight of below 2,500 kg

HUF 9,000

with a permissible maximum gross weight of over 2,500 kg

HUF 22,000

 

 

Establishment of the value of rights of pecuniary value

Annual value

1/20 of the market value of objects with the value of right of pecuniary value, without any encumbrances deducted

The value of rights of pecuniary value defined for a definite period of time

Annual value multiplied by the number of years specified (max. 20 years) 

The value of rights of pecuniary value defined for an indefinite period of time

Five times the annual value

Right of pecuniary value covering the period of life, marriage or widowhood of a person

If the beneficiary of the right of pecuniary value:

is below 25 years of age

10 times the annual value

is between 25 and 50 years of age

8 times the annual value

is between 51 and 65 years of age

6 times the annual value

is over 65 years of age

4 times the annual value

If the term of a right of pecuniary value is conditional upon the lifetime, period of marriage or widowhood of both the beneficiary and the obligee, the age of the older of the two persons applies.

If the term of a right is conditional upon the lifetime of more than one person having simultaneous entitlement, where such entitlement terminates upon the death of the person who dies first, the age of the oldest person applies for calculation; however, if entitlement remains in effect until the death of the last person, the age of the youngest person applies for calculation.

If the term of a right of pecuniary value covers a period of marriage, the age of the older spouse is applied for calculation.

Value of the temporary use (time-sharing) of a holiday resort

365th of the annual value of the right multiplied by the number of days stipulated in the contract

The value of the right to conduct independent medical practice

The value stipulated in the relevant contract or, in the case of the conveyance of medical practice, the value declared by the person to whom the right has been transferred

 

 
 
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